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Extent of threats to marine fish from the online aquarium trade in the United States. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
The global marine aquarium hobby is a multibillion‐dollar industry, largely driven by demand from the United States. Much of this trade occurs online. We web scraped 4 major US‐based e‐commerce platforms selling marine aquarium fish to determine the retail price and source (wild capture, aquaculture, or both) of 13 families of ray‐finned marine fish ...
Lin B, Zeng Y, To B, Holmberg RJ, Rhyne AL, Tlusty M, Wilcove DS.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Dominant Founder Lineage Has Possible Fitness Costs for the Endangered Mexican Grey Wolf. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
ABSTRACT The Mexican grey wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is an endangered and genetically distinct subspecies of grey wolf adapted to the warm climates of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Following centuries of eradication efforts, Mexican grey wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act in 1976, prompting an international ex situ ...
Loera Y, Khakoo M, Krueckeberg E, Nilsson IG, Wu Z, Dwire M, Adams J, Waits L, Oakleaf JK, Campbell ML, Dunnum JL, Cook JA, vonHoldt BM.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Incorporating citizen science into IUCN Red List assessments. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Many citizen scientists are highly motivated to help address the current extinction crisis. Their work is making valuable contributions to protecting species by raising awareness, identifying species occurrences, assessing population trends, and informing direct management actions, such as captive breeding.
Gallagher R, Roger E, Packer J, Slatyer C, Rowley J, Cornwell W, Ens E, Legge S, Simpfendorfer C, Stephens R, Mesaglio T.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Hobbyist preferences for pet freshwater turtles [PDF]

Conservation biology.
Abstract The burgeoning pet trade is a primary threat to wild freshwater turtles worldwide. Although the risks from commercial exploitation of turtles have been discussed widely, there is little empirical research on preferences for pet turtles from a hobbyists’ perspective.
Zhao J, Chen Z, Duan B, Zheng W, Wan A, Zhang X, Li L, Lee T.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Factors affecting the recovery of Mexican wolves in the Southwest United States

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 2199-2209, October 2023., 2023
Using management removal to reduce human–carnivore conflict can have negative population impacts if not used judiciously. Recovering and maintaining carnivore populations in shared landscapes may require greater tolerance of conflict and more emphasis on effective conflict prevention strategies and compensation programs for affected stakeholders ...
Stewart W. Breck, Amy J. Davis, John K. Oakleaf, David L. Bergman, Jim deVos, J. Paul Greer, Kim Pepin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Publication and use of genetic tools in conservation management applications—A systematic review

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 1522-1536, August 2023., 2023
Conservation genetics tools must be brought to the forefront of conservation policy and management. Users should support the use of systems and accessible databases to increase the uptake of genetics tools for conservation in applied management decisions for wildlife, reducing barriers to disseminating the results to other end users and interested ...
Kevin Tkach, Maggie J. Watson
wiley   +1 more source

Comportamiento en cautiverio del morrocoy (geochelone carbonaria) durante la época reproductiva

Revista Colombiana de Ciencia Animal Recia, 2010
Con fin de conocer el comportamiento reproductivo de G. carbonaria en cautiverio, se seleccionaron doce ejemplares, tres machos y nueve hembras, de tamaños similares, con una talla promedio de 34,35 cm de longitud total de caparazón (DS=4,74).
VÍCTOR MARTÍNEZ-TORRES, LUIS GÓMEZ-ALDANA, JAIME DE LA OSSA   +2 more
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NIDIFICATION OF THE DUNG BEETLE Onthophagus curvicornis LATREILLE, 1811 (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS

Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias, 2017
The dung beetle Onthophagus curvicornis is widely distributed in the Andean region and is the most abundant dung beetle in protected areas and urban and semi-urban environments in the metropolitan area of Medellin.
José Mauricio Montes-Rodríguez
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Discursos europeos del siglo XVII sobre la apostasía y la conversión al Islam: un texto del cautivo francés Germain Moüette sobre Bernard Bausset y los catorce leones del sultán Mulay Ismail de Marruecos

Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, 2015
La historia del cautivo francés Bernard Bausset, que sobrevive tras ser arrojado a un foso con catorce leones hambrientos por parte del sultán de Marruecos Mulay Ismail, forma parte de la Relation de captivité de Germain Moüette, una obra editada en ...
Araceli González Vázquez
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Captivity experiences and the editor's digressions. Corpus divergences between Fray Servando Teresa de Mier and Reinaldo Arenas' construction

Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022
What follows is undoubtedly a reduction, but it is also a library of human affections that reveals the complexity of the whole, the contradictions, and the convergences in Latin American literature. The writing is then anchored in the different ways that
Rossana Nofal
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